Crystalee Calderwood is a born poet turned children's writer, small town girl turned big city dweller. Crystalee moved from Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when she was twenty-two years old to attend the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chatham University. It was there she took her very first class in writing for children and adolescents, and she's never looked back.

As a member of Literacy*AmeriCorps Pittsburgh, Crystalee had the pleasure of interacting with children in the community through the non-profit organization Beginning with Books. She introduced children to great books in hopes that they would fall in love with them the way she has.  

In Crystalee's spare time, she likes to surf the internet and read YA novels.  She spends a crazy amount of time in her own head, formulating ideas for picture books out of things she has overheard throughout the day.  She is currently working on a YA novel that takes place in Pittsburgh, and has ideas for two more novels.

Her first picture book, Angeline Jellybean, can be purchased at Amazon.com and from the publisher 4RV Publishing, LLC.

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